Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) has arrested a mercenary who worked for the Chief Intellingence Directorate (GRU) of the Russian Defence Ministry, Yury Stets, Ukraine’s Information Policy Minister, told journalists.
The arrestee was paid $50 a day, liga.net reports.
Oleg Khlyupin, a citizen of Russia, was ordered to coma to Ukraine for spying, but on March, 4 he was detained at attempt to move from separatist-controlled Luhansk to Stanitsa Luhanskaya.
Mr Khlyupin is a resident of the city of Volgograd. In 2005-2006 he took part in GRU military operations in Chechnya, but later passed to the reserve. Summoned by a local military agency, he agreed to fulfil GRU’s tasks in Ukraine for 3,000 Russian rubles ($50) a day. Notably, Russian military authorities failed to sign any contract with him.
Oleg Khlyupin confirmed that a lot of Russians were sent to Donbas by the country’s military agencies adding that militants in eastern Ukraine do have equipment of Russian origin in their arsenal.
